7 Quick Takes Friday

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I for one am very grateful that Jen kept the "7" in "7 Quick Takes Friday." I do not have one extra iota of emotional energy to waste on such things (I'm too busy trying to decide what type of sugary cereal breakfast to feed the kids in the morning) and am thankful to not have to wrangle with the decision of how much to write every Friday.

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My experiment with gratefully accepting suffering (does anyone else see the paradox between this "take" and the first one? I'm lame.) is pure torture coming along well. As I expected, the 2nd full day of trying it was filled with one test after another. I'm trying to figure out whether it's OK to be emotional about this stuff - as a hormotional woman I'm prone to get overwhelmed and cry - is that NOT accepting things? Or is that simply my sensitive nature showing itself? In other words, is it wrong and UNthankful to be overwhelmed by people yelling at you, children never obeying (my 3yo is unREAL), noise, pain, or is it just human? Can I be saying "Thank you Lord!" as tears stream down my face from the stress of it all?

For example, like right now? As I'm trying to mess with this html that won't "uncenter" everything and keep the baby from chewing the computer cord or pull out every tissue in the box and the 3yo just called to be wiped and I had to scream to her to be heard over exhaust fan and I had just bit my tongue on my breakfast? It's TOO MUCH. Yet it's most of my waking moments.

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I think it is the cutest thing how my 13 month old tries to pick up his own foot with one hand and shove it into his shoe in the other hand.

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Speaking of Mr. Cutie Pie, he is waking up *soaked* every morning. I went up a size in diapers to see if that would help, and it hasn't. He does nurse a lot at night still, which I'm sure is part of the problem. If I change him in the middle of the night, however, he is sure to wake up fully and then I'm up for a few hours just for the sake of clean pajamas. No thank you. Is this a boy thing? Are there better more absorbant diapers? (we use Luvs in general). I have cloth but I thought they would be even less absorbant for a super duper night wetter.

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Dh is planning on taking a few extra days off next week to paint our living/dining room. It shouldn't be too bad except for one area in our stairwell with a high ceiling. Hopefully I'll remember some before and after pictures. It's a putrid pale yellow now and we're going for a slightly darker, neutral tan/brown. Then I can finally buy new curtains to replace the ugly ones I made in the living area and the ones that never matched in the dining room. Then I can replace the playground equiptment rocker recliner I gave away a few weeks ago. (This is why I don't feel so noble that I want nothing for Christmas. I am able to buy things for the house all year round when "necessary.")

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Speaking of home decor. It's getting increasingly difficult for me to feel good about housecleaning. I scrub and scrub and things don't look any better. Why bother? I mean, there is only so clean 40 year old bathroom floor grout can get, ya know? And we have one (really two) of those floors where there are a thousand little tile squares/rectangles, so there's a lot of pee stained horribleness grout. :-P

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Let's see...something pleasant.
Dh let me have an hour or two to hide out last night and get our Christmas card done. I got as far as coming up with the layout/colors and he did all the tweaking to make it look good visually (i.e. pictures the same size, lined up, etc), which is hard with our cheapo scrapbooking software. We are a perfect couple. :)

(here's a 7.5 - it just started snowing!! The kids all cheered and ran outside.)

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